8vo. 24pp. With a loosely inserted supplementary pamphlet and numerous engraved and photographic in-text illustrations. Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's pictorial blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed, some toning to wrappers, staples rusted. Internally clean & crisp.

The first edition of a pamphlet detailing and explaining a complete card act designed by Edgar Joseph 'Joe' Stuthard (1911-1992), magician, entertainer, and magic inventor, famed for his talents with a Svengali deck. The manual, structured carefully to introduce the amateur sleight-of-hand student to Stuthard's specially engineered 'Trilby' deck, was clearly successful, being revised the following year and reprinted in a further edition in 1953.

Rare; COPAC records a single copy (NLS), OCLC adds two further (Brown and Victoria).